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“ She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. ”

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

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I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

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